Marks needed calculator

Where to find the boundary

Exam boards publish grade boundaries after each exam series, as raw marks for each paper and for the whole qualification. Search your board's website for the grade boundaries for your exact specification and series.

Boundaries move every year, sometimes by several marks, depending on how hard the papers were. Use last year's figure as a rough guide, and aim a few marks above it to give yourself room.

How it works it out

Marks needed = your target total minus the marks you already have. That is then compared with the marks still available on the papers you have not sat.

The per-paper figures split what you need in proportion to each paper's size, so a 100-mark paper carries twice as much of the work as a 50-mark one. In practice you will do better on some papers than others, which is fine as long as the total gets there.

Using mock results

You can put mock marks in as 'already sat' to see what you would need on the remaining papers if the real ones went the same way. It is a guide, not a forecast, and it is most useful for deciding where your revision time is best spent.

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